{"id":7672,"date":"2010-01-29T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2010-01-30T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T09:39:26","slug":"scott-roeder-murderer-of-bill-oreillys-tiller-the-killer-found-guilty-oreilly-still-off-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7672","title":{"rendered":"Scott Roeder, Murderer of Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Tiller the Killer’ Found Guilty; O’Reilly Still Off Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

After just 37 minutes of deliberation, a jury in Kansas found Scott Roeder, the murderer of Dr. George Tiller guilty on all counts<\/a>. The 51-year-old airport shuttle driver faces a mandatory life sentence with the possibility of parole in 25 years, though prosecutors have expressed they hope to get a “Hard 50” for him — meaning he’d not be eligible for parole unless he lived to be 101.<\/p>\n

Though during the trial the domestic terrorist Roeder told the court he’d decided as long ago as 1993 to try and kill Tiller, it wasn’t until after months of increasing demonization by the rightwing media that Roeder finally found the courage to shoot Tiller in the head<\/a> during a Sunday church service in Wichita last year.<\/p>\n

Before his murder, Tiller, who for years had performed perfectly legal abortion procedures, had been villainized in an ongoing media campaign, led most notably by Bill O’Reilly of Fox “News.” O’Reilly, who, despite his own false claims to the contrary<\/a> had described him on air, time and again, as “Tiller the Baby Killer” and repeatedly told viewers on the most popular program on cable “news” that “This guy will kill your baby for $5,000, any reason. Any reason.”<\/p>\n

Roeder testified during the trial<\/a> that he “did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children. … If I didn’t do it, the babies were going to die the next day.”<\/p>\n

Other related statements, for which O’Reilly has never been held accountable, include<\/a>:<\/p>\n